Oracle+Sun: Java News Round-Up, Part 1

Last week saw a flurry of news, announcements, webcasts, and information around the Oracle-Sun acquisition.

In fact, there was so much detail it is easy to miss some of it … so I thought I’d summarize the most significant bits focusing on Java and the Java ecosystem (keep in mind that more information is becoming available on a daily basis so this is necessarily incomplete).

This is part 1 which is about the Java strategy. Part 2 (tomorrow) will be about Java developer tools, and part 3 (the day after) will be on developer communities.

Today, let’s dive into the webcast I already pointed out in my last blog:

Continue to drive Java as the most widely used, productive, innovative, reliable, performant, and pervasive platform

HotSpot and JRocket continue to be strategic JVMs going forward

JDK 7 work continues, releases coming up in 2010, including improvements for dynamic languages

Java SE (desktop) is a core area of continued investment

Java EE (enterprise): Glassfish continues as the Java EE reference implementation and open source project (Oracle has already contributed to the Glassfish community in the past). See also Arun Gupta’s blog on Glassfish.

The Java for Business support program will continue and expand under Oracle

JavaOne:Continues as open community event for Java, co-located with Oracle Open World in San Francisco (Sep 19-23, 2010), plus taking JavaOne on the road to Brazil, Russia, India, China

It’s clear that Oracle understands the importance of Java for its own business as well as for the IT industry as a whole. I’m happy to see a focus on the important topics that matter to developers and the Java ecosystem. Stay tuned.

For further information:

Be sure to bookmark the Oracle and Sun top-level page, which includes press releases, and information on products, downloads, customers and partners, support/services/sales, keynotes, and more